An elementary approach to gap theorems

DOI10.1007/S12044-009-0020-5MaRDI QIDQ841199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Harish Seshadri

Publication date 14 September 2009

Published in Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0285

zbMATH Keywords

Riemannian manifoldsectional curvaturehyperbolic spacevolume comparison

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: Using elementary comparison geometry, we prove: Let $(M,g)$ be a simply-connected complete Riemannian manifold of dimension $ge3$. Suppose that the sectional curvature $K$ satisfies $-1-s(r)leKle-1$, where $r$ denotes distance to a fixed point in $M$. If $li{m}_{rtinfty}{e}^{2r}s(r)=0$, then $(M,g)$ has to be isometric to ${mathbbH}^n$. The same proof also yields that if $K$ satisfies $-s(r)leKle0$ where $li{m}_{rtinfty}{r}^{2}s(r)=0$, then $(M,g)$ is isometric to $R^n$, a result due to Greene and Wu. Our second result is a local one: Let $(M,g)$ be any Riemannian manifold. For $ainR$, if $Klea$ on a geodesic ball $B_p(R)$ in $M$ and $K=a$ on $partial{B}_p(R)$, then $K=a$ on $B_p(R)$.

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